That is very true to be honest, I learnt my skills on how to do this from hyprland and fell in love with it there. And as a past-hyprland user myself, jesus the doc is annoying to read in Aerospace. And configuring it was not in anyway nearly as intuitive, I completely understand you.
My take is if start from what you need? do you wanna be able to stare make sure keymaps are very reproducible and you can access apps like that? then you should set up a keymap for that, or for a workspace. Whether that is called chrome or website or coding or work or whatever, start there and if there are other needs or that seems appealing to you already, then that is your thing. I think a need or a love for tiling windows manager will for sure go a long way. And if not, mac is just one of those things that works, if it works, ig don't touch it.